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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts - Featuring Sports bidstart 7/23 Total Sales (USD) 1,016,103.00
Auction Date August 11, 2021 - August 11, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 609,450.00
Sale Number #614 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 931,050.00
Total Lots 1025
Sold Lots 793 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 876,450.00
% of Lots Sold 77.37% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,317,900.00
Unsold Lots 232 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 77.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1011

St. Louis 1904 Olympics Official's Participation Medal/Badge

1904 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 33,901.00
597 Beatles Signed

Beatles Signed Program

1963 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 30,250.00
885 Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth Signed Oversized Photograph

1930s USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 25,826.00
478 Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin Autograph Letter Signed

1885 USD 22,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 25,121.00
407 Orville Wright

Orville Wright Signature

1903 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 20,870.00
868 Lou Gehrig

Lou Gehrig Signed Photograph

1920s through 1940s USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 20,660.00
3 John Adams

John Adams Autograph Letter Signed

1779 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,750.00
190 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph

1932 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,503.00
191 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Signed Photograph

1930 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 16,444.00
879 Christy Mathewson

Won in the Ninth.

1910 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 15,000.00
181 Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter Signed

1962 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 14,196.00
598 Beatles Signed

Beatles Signed Sketch

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,740.00
2 George Washington

George Washington Autograph Letter Signed

1784 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,589.00
888 Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, and Hall

Babe Ruth, Walter Johnson, and Hall of Famers 1939 Cooperstown Centennial Multi-Signed Program Cover

1939 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,088.00
764 Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn Signed Photograph

1951 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 12,680.00
1 George Washington

George Washington Document Signed

1784 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,501.00
610 Paul Stanley

KISS: Paul Stanley

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,381.00
25 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Note Signed

1863 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,999.00
216 Richard Francis Burton

Richard Francis Burton Signed Photograph

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,733.00
183 P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum (5) Autograph Letters Signed and John Ringling Signed Check

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,694.00
24 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President

1861 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,985.00
481 Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd Wright Design Drawing and Lot of (9) Blueprints

1948 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,360.00
201 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud Autograph Letter Signed

1938 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,249.00
244 Madame Chiang Kai-shek

Madame Chiang Kai-shek Typed Letter Signed

1946 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,768.00
28 U. S. Grant

U. S. Grant Signed Photograph

1864-1866 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 7,668.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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